- bestial
[bestial 词源字典]
- bestial: see beast
[bestial etymology, bestial origin, 英语词源] - bestial (adj.)
- late 14c., from Old French bestial (13c.) "relating to animals, stupid, foolish, bestial" and directly from Latin bestialis "like a beast," from bestia (see beast). Sense of "below the dignity of a human" is from c. 1400, and in many cases its use is unjust to the beasts.